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The government has woken up to the hazards of smoking, and stepped into the traditionally free domain of the cigarette manufacturers. It has been increasing taxes on tobacco products every year. Yet it is pathetically failing to enforce the law that proh

blasted electronic cigarette supporters on Thursday for lauding the product’s supposed benefit to adult cigarette smokers who are trying to quit, telling lawmakers it is a “red herring” that distracts from nicotine’s harmful effects on children. Tim McAf

Zeller, the director of the Center for Tobacco Products of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said during a press conference held today here at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in San Diego, California. To this end, the AA

A new study by the conservative Tax Foundation says that 56.9 percent of all cigarettes sold in New York were illegally imported from out of state sources. The foundation’s report says the surge in cigarette smuggling is directly correlated to New York’s

The Minister for Public Health (Michael Matheson): Although electronic cigarettes might have the potential to help people quit tobacco, their long-term public health effects are not known. I remain concerned that the promotion of those devices could reno

Tax systems should be neutral. They should try to influence human behaviour as little as possible. When government tries to influence behaviour through tax changes, it is obscuring real-world incentives toward efficient market behaviour, as well as imposi

In order to pass, companies must show that their products are “substantially equivalent” to other products that are eligible under the act, according to the agency. The agency said that it will not take any enforcement action for roughly a month agains

determined ... the taxpayer obligated itself as if it were a manufacturer of tobacco products and therefore, the taxpayer was paying its own liability to the qualified settlement fund, not a liability it had assumed on behalf of Protabaco, because Protaba

A federal program that let law enforcement trace cigarette packs from manufacturer to consumer would reduce interstate trafficking and boost the public health benefits of state cigarette tax policies, researchers say. Without a national tracking system i